A TEENAGE boy has escaped with a final warning after throwing a block of ice from a bridge onto a lorry as it passed underneath. The 15-year-old was arrested near Dover this afternoon following the incident in which the lorry driver’s sun visor was smashed.

The driver was heading up the A20 London-bound shortly after 2pm when the incident happened near the Aycliffe roundabout.

The driver managed to park safely and told patrol officers where to find a group of youths who had been on the bridge.

Officers arrested the youth on suspicion of criminal damage. He was taken to Dover Police Station and questioned about the incident.

A police spokesman said: “He has received a final warning from a police inspector. If he commits any further offence he has been warned that he will be prosecuted.”

The lorry driver, who does not want to be identified, said: “Our job is difficult enough as it is, without this sort of behaviour. If that block of ice had landed lower than it did, the consequences could have been far worse.”

This incident comes a day after south east Kent’s Det Chief Insp Chris Hogben warned that throwing objects at passing traffic is a criminal act and will be treated seriously by police.

“If anyone had been killed as a result of this incident, we would be looking at a murder investigation,” he added.